Categories
MICRON-COSMIC ANALOGS
Summary: AEROSOLS
Micron- cosmic analogs subcategories
Asteroids
Comets
Origin
mechanical milling of some of the original Olivine Pebble
Main constituent
olivine Fe0.16Mg1.84SiO4
Practical significance
cometary and asteroidal dust analog
Particle size Mie: reff (μm)
6.5
Particle size Mie: veff
1.4
Size distribution plot
Size distribution table
Particle shape
irregular
All SEM images (zip file)
Refractive index
1.62 + i0.00005 (see the Jena-St. Petersburg Database of Optical Constants, Henning et al. 1999 ).
Color
white
Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
514
Scattering matrix (1) plot
Scattering matrix (1) table
Angle range (deg)
[3,177]
Paper (pdf)
Full reference paper
Frattin E, Martikainen J, Muñoz O, Gómez-Martín J-C, Jardel T, Cellino A, Libourel G, Muinonen K, Peiteado M and Tanga P. Experimental phase function and degree of linear polarization curve of olivine and spinel and the origin of the Barbarian polarization behaviour. MNRAS vol. 517, pp. 5463-5472, 2022.
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